The soaring comeback of the bald eagle uplifts Ethan Augustine.

By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli, The County Staff A series of eight donated watercolors will take one of Maine’s most popular ...

A series of eight donated watercolors will take one of Maine’s most popular lumber museums into a new era. “In order to grow we need to branch out and we are testing the waters,” said Dottie Tucker, ...

With snow rapidly melting this week, a reminder that wildfire season is coming up. Red Beard Clearing and Cutting owner Sean Klongerbo goes up into the trees and cuts them down. His company ...

A spruce budworm eating fir needles as it defoliates trees. Credit: Courtesy of the Maine Spruce Budworm Task Force and the University of Maine’s Cooperative Forestry Research Unit The BDN Opinion ...

MAINE (WABI) - Senator Susan Collins has announced the release of $10,000,000 for spruce budworm mitigation. As the small worm species continues to threaten the health of Maine forests, researchers ...

The spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana and related species) is the principal defoliator of balsam fir and spruce across boreal and temperate forests of North America. Populations undergo ...

Timberland owners and state officials hope to capitalize on a successful pesticide campaign against a spruce budworm outbreak by resuming aerial treatment next spring. Targeted aerial spraying across ...

A Gordon Lightfoot song, the “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” has a stanza that goes, “There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run / When the wild majestic mountains stood alone ...

A notice went out in our subdivision on Yale Creek in Island Park that it was western spruce budworm season. This year, the subdivision had arranged for a drone to spray the trees on properties for a ...

The wretched worm that ravages spruce and fir trees and leaves a brownish mess in its wake seems to be everywhere one looks this summer, while options for trying to prevent the pest from wreaking its ...